The Roots Music Report's
Top 50 Folk Album Chart
for the Week of Jan 25, 2020
| TW | LW | Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | Sub Genre | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | 1 | 1 | Moonshine Blue | Jack Broadbent | Crow's Feet | Folk Rock |
| ▲ | 2 | 35 | We'll Never Know Unless We Try | Darling West | Jansen | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 3 | 6 | What It is | Hayes Carll | Dualtone | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 4 | 3 | How We Want to Live | Lisa Bastoni | Sweet Ondine | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 5 | 4 | The Only Ones | The Milk Carton Kids | Thirty Tigers | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 6 | 5 | Come on Up to the House - Women Sing Waits | Dualtone | Dualtone | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 7 | 2 | Rearrange My Heart | Che Apalache | Free Dirt | Traditional Folk |
| ▼ | 8 | 7 | Medicine for Living | Alexa Rose | Big Legal Mess | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 9 | 12 | Pass It on Down | Linda Sussman | Self-Release | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 10 | 8 | Charlie Parr | Charlie Parr | Red House | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 11 | 9 | Adobe Road | Cej | Gnosong | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 12 | 11 | The Storyteller's Suitcase | Ellis Paul | Rosella | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 13 | 25 | Honest | Ordinary Elephant | Self-Release | Alternative Folk |
| ▲ | 14 | 21 | A Shiver in the Sky | The John Byrne Band | Ri-Ra | Alternative Folk |
| ▼ | 15 | 13 | Heart Land Again | Tim Grimm | Self-Release | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 16 | 14 | Songs of Our Native Daughters | Our Native Daughters | Smithsonian Folkways | Alternative Folk |
| - | 17 | 17 | Without Susie | James Lee Stanley | Beachwood | Alternative Folk |
| ▲ | 18 | 41 | Chasing the Sun | Bobtown | Self-Release | Alternative Folk |
| ▼ | 19 | 18 | Who Cares | David G Smith | Hey Dave | Alternative Folk |
| ▼ | 20 | 19 | Ten: the Errant Night | Runa | Self-Release | Celtic |
| ▲ | 21 | 47 | Tim O'Brien Band | Tim O'Brien | Howdy Skies | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 22 | 15 | Evening Machines | Gregory Alan Isakov | Dualtone | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 23 | 20 | This Little Town | The W Lovers | Self-Release | Alternative Folk |
| ▼ | 24 | 23 | If Wishes Were Horses | Matt Patershuk | Black Hen | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 25 | 22 | Cash Cabin Sessions, Vol. 3 | Todd Snider | Aimless | Folk Rock |
| *NEW* | 26 | - | Circadian | Letitia VanSant | Self-Release | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 27 | 10 | San Isabel | Jamestown Revival | Thirty Tigers | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 28 | 62 | Walk Through Fire | Yola | Nonesuch | Folk Rock |
| ▼ | 29 | 24 | All That's Real | Gathering Sparks | Borealis | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 30 | 27 | More Than I Should | Duff Ferguson | Self-Release | Alternative Folk |
| ▼ | 31 | 28 | Coyote | Catherine MacLellan | Self-Release | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 32 | 29 | Down Hearted Blues | Eilen Jewell | Signature Sounds | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 33 | 30 | Just Like a Woman: Songs of Bob Dylan | Jessica Rhaye | Self-Release | Folk Rock |
| ▼ | 34 | 31 | Assiniboine & the Red | The Small Glories | Red House | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 35 | 33 | The Maes | The Maes | Self-Release | Traditional Folk |
| ▼ | 36 | 32 | Who Asked You Back | EllaHarp | Self-Release | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 37 | 36 | The Question | Anna Tivel | Fluff And Gravy | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 38 | 37 | Dreams on Hold | Sarah Eide | Sugarbird | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 39 | 38 | I Like It Down Here | Will Kimbrough | Daphne | Folk Rock |
| ▼ | 40 | 39 | Casey Joe Lambert | Casey Joe Lambert | Hill Country Artists | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 41 | 70 | There is No Other (with Francesco Turrisi) | Rhiannon Giddens | Nonesuch | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 42 | 48 | Easy Money | Old Man Luedecke | True North | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 43 | 42 | Going to the Well | Linda McRae | 42RPM | Alternative Folk |
| *NEW* | 44 | - | A Beginner's Guide to Bravery | David Keenan | Rubyworks | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 45 | 43 | Paws of a Bear | Sofia Talvik | Makaki | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 46 | 50 | Better by Now | Benjamin Dakota Rogers | Trespass Music | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 47 | 44 | Between the Country | Ian Noe | Thirty Tigers | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 48 | 45 | Straight to Marrow | Clint Alphin | Self-Release | Contemporary Folk |
| ▼ | 49 | 46 | Winter Stories (feat. Chatham County Line) | Judy Collins | Cleopatra | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 50 | 78 | Visions | Alice Howe | Self-Release | Contemporary Folk |
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